Above Photo: Report on ongoing defense of Fallout Camp in so-called Portland, Oregon from the PDX Houseless Radicals Collective. (@PDXHRC / Twitter). On Thursday, February 17th, park rangers and Portland police showed up to the PDX Houseless Radicals Collective’s Fallout Camp on Park’s land in southeast Portland, Oregon. Their intended eviction of the camp was prevented by the presence of several comrades who were there in support. They promised to return in force the following Tuesday. . Organizing for a sweep defense started ramping up that weekend. A community potluck was called for that Sunday at Fallout Camp, where a meeting was held discussing […]
Provide
26 posts
Above Photo: Martin Fisch / CC BY 2.0. Why is the Biden administration only now making rapid antigen tests available for free when the British government has been doing so for months? After two years without being able to travel home from London, England to Los Angeles, Cali. to see my family, I finally arrived in a chaotic U.S. in time for the holidays amid the Omicron wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. Although I’d been preparing for a difficult return thanks to the new variant, I had been eager to see my family now that I’m finally vaccinated against Covid-19 and […]
Above photo: Protestors in Midtown Manhattan call for an end to police brutality after Derek Chauvin’s guilty verdict. Vincent Tsai. In the year 2021, it was the turn of the US government, particularly its judicial system, to respond to the protests of 2020. In the summer of 2020, the people of the United States witnessed the largest anti-racist struggle in the country’s history after a video of the brutal murder of George Floyd by officer Derek Chauvin went viral. While Floyd’s murder was the catalyst, the first year of the pandemic was marked by increased police and vigilante violence. Ahmaud Arbery, […]
The U.S. Department of Defense had announced the contract, a modification to a previous award, for Peace Phoenix Rising 2 (PPR2) program of the Taiwanese Air Force, also known as the Republic of China Air Force (ROCAF). Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Corp. was awarded a $138 million contract modification for the development and fielding of capabilities for the Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System and AGM-88 High Speed Anti-radiation Missile; improvements in radar software maturity; an update to the Data Acquisition System; and Advanced Identification Friend or Foe for the Taiwan Retrofit Program F-16 Block 20 fleet, the Department of Defense announced. Under the terms […]
U.S. arms maker Lockheed Martin Corp. is addressing the accelerating demand for space-enabled warfighting capabilities with a new line of rapid, integrated and affordable tactical Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) satellites. These satellites, based on Lockheed Martin’s LM 400 mid-size bus, enable tactical warfighters to track moving targets at long ranges and operate in contested and denied environments — on compressed timelines at the scale of battle. Based on flight-proven and mature components, an open architecture, and a highly produceable design, the affordable LM 400 satellite bus forms the backbone of this needed capability across a variety of emerging mission areas. […]
Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute Byron Callan said that U.S. President Joe Biden and his administration must provide advanced F-15 fighter jets to Ukraine. Byron Callan calls that the need to upgrade Ukraine’s Air Force presents an opportunity for the Biden administration to cause Moscow some genuine pain, in both the real strategic sense and in terms of the long-running propaganda war. Ukraine currently has a fleet of heavy fighters of around fifty Soviet-designed Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker interceptors. Around thirty are believed to be operational. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – He thinks that the only Western […]
White House physician Dr. Sean Conley gives an update on the condition of President Donald Trump Saturday at Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images White House physician Dr. Sean Conley gives an update on the condition of President Donald Trump Saturday at Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images Eds note: President Trump’s doctors gave a briefing Saturday morning outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. In a statement later, Dr. Sean Conley said he misspoke during his news conference. He […]
Assange Hearing: Testimonies Undermine US Indictment, Provide Grounds For Dismissal By Tom Coburg, The Canary. September 27, 2020 Assange Hearing: Testimonies Undermine US Indictment, Provide Grounds For Dismissal2020-09-272020-09-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/chelsea-manning-and-julian-assange.jpg200px200px Above photo: Wikimedia – Tim Travers Hawkins / Flickr – Cancillería del Ecuador. Week three of the hearings at the Old Bailey for Julian Assange‘s extradition to the US heard testimony from a computer security expert that may prove to be critical. That testimony could be used to undermine the first indictment raised against the WikiLeaks founder and therefore weaken the entire case. Other testimonies may form the basis by which the US extradition request could be dismissed. No […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107277/40/1072774013_0:195:2946:1853_1199x675_80_0_0_2b6e805086f1e583690b8d3af5d30954.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/russia/202009101080424141-russia-unable-to-probe-navalny-case-due-to-germany-refusing-to-provide-facts-nebenzia-says/ UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) – Germany still has not provided any evidence to confirm that Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny had been poisoned with a Novichok-type nerve agent that would allow starting an investigation in the case, Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia said during a UN Security Council meeting. “Any investigation should be preceded by evidence and by facts. Our law enforcement authorities do not have grounds to open an investigation. Our doctors did not find any chemical weapon substances in his [Navalny’s] analysis,” Nebenzia said on Thursday. “We received no evidence […]
Two self-described “Boogaloo Bois” were charged on Friday for allegedly conspiring and attempting to aid Hamas, the extremist Islamist group, as part of “their desire to overthrow the government” after protests erupted in Minneapolis over the police-killing of George Floyd. Michael Robert Solomon, 30, and Benjamin Ryan Teeter, 22, were charged with conspiring and attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, the Department of Justice said in a Friday press release. Both men, who proclaim to be part of the extremist anti-government Boogaloo movement, were taken into custody on Thursday evening and have been remanded in Minneapolis pending […]
Japanese crypto exchange Bitgate will soon offer customers cold storage services through BitGo, a U.S.-regulated trust company, meeting new legal requirements set by the local financial regulator. BitGo announced Wednesday it would provide its “Self-Managed Custody” service to the exchange, which is supervised by the Japanese Financial Services Agency (JFSA). Japan-based financial services firm Daiko Holdings secured a controlling stake in the exchange earlier this year. These are requirements by the JFSA, said BitGo CEO Mike Belshe, with new regulations going into effect this past May reflecting an increased amount of attention paid to security in a country that has suffered […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/13/1080219823_0:94:3067:1819_1200x675_80_0_0_b13184018dfeab85b7991a5232c2d550.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202008221080250239-house-approves-bill-to-provide-25-billion-to-us-postal-service/ US Senate Majority Leader McConnell has said that the Senate “will absolutely not pass” the bill providing $25 billion in support to the US Postal Service. After a vote in the House of Representatives, the document must first go to the Senate for approval, and then to the president for signature. The bill prohibits the US Postal Service from making any of the operational or service changes that were introduced on 1 January 2020. On Wednesday, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that the bill for the US Postal Service would be passed in […]
Chinese Peacekeepers Provide Aid After Explosion In Beirut By Kristin Huang, South China Morning Post. August 21, 2020 Chinese Peacekeepers Provide Aid After Explosion In Beirut2020-08-212020-08-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/beirut2.png200px200px Above photo: The massive explosion in Beirut on Tuesday flattened much of the city’s port, damaging buildings across the capital and sending a giant mushroom cloud into the sky. AP. Chinese peacekeepers will provide medical aid to Beirut following the deadly explosion on Tuesday that killed at least 135 people and injured 5,000 others. Upon the request of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), the 18th batch of Chinese peacekeeping troops to Lebanon organised […]
Data provider Chainlink will provide decentralized weather data for insurance startup Arbol, according to a blog shared with CoinDesk. Arbol provides crop insurance for small to medium-sized farmers or enterprises. Smart contracts pay claims to subscribers when a preset value – such as the average monthly temperature or rainfall – turns out different than the contract specifies, the firm said. Called parametric insurance, the financial derivative is often used in agriculture to hedge against future events, such as a bad harvest. Other firms, notably CME Group, also offer weather derivatives that require middlemen. Arbol insurance, on the other hand, self-executes using […]
Patricia Lopez, right, with her daughter, Yamely Alfaro Lopez, 11, and son, Kevin Alfaro Lopez, 3, in Everett, Wash. Jovelle Tamayo for NPR hide caption toggle caption Jovelle Tamayo for NPR Patricia Lopez, right, with her daughter, Yamely Alfaro Lopez, 11, and son, Kevin Alfaro Lopez, 3, in Everett, Wash. Jovelle Tamayo for NPR When the pandemic hit the state of Washington, it took Patricia Lopez’s job as a medical assistant with it. Not having a college degree made it especially hard to find a new job, as so many employers were making cuts and tightening budgets. Lopez applied for unemployment […]
Earlier in the week, talks on a fourth round of aid to address the public health crisis and economic woes triggered by the coronavirus pandemic stalled as Congressional Democrats pushed for a larger spending package and vowed to file a legal challenge if President Donald Trump acted through executive orders to circumvent Congress. US President Donald Trump signed four executive orders on Saturday to provide financial relief for Americans amidst the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, after negotiations with Congress hit a stalemate earlier in the week. The stimulus package offers the following assistance: Federal Unemployment Aid Donald Trump’s executive […]
Julian Assange and WikiLeaks have repeatedly denied allegations that the emails belonging to the Democratic National Committee which they published in 2016 were provided to them by Russian or any other state actor, but rather than they were leaked to the organisation via “official circles in Washington DC”. Democratic National Committee (DNC) documents published by WikiLeaks in 2016 and could not have been obtained through hacking, according to a new assessment co-authored by National Security Agency (NSA) whistelblower Bill Binney. Mr Binney, speaking via an online press conference on 23 July 2020, said that he and a team of other former intelligence […]
STUNNING: FBI Now Refuses to Provide Documents on Seth Rich’s Brother and a DOJ Attorney (Who Admitted Meeting with Mueller Gang on Seth Rich Case) Due to Privacy Concerns? Tap here to add The Western Journal to your home screen. Source link
CIA Involvement in the Creation of the Russia Hack and Seth Rich Cover-up is now the focus of Group requesting the truth behind Trump-Russia collusion sham. In June 2016, Ellen Nakashima, a Deep State favorite from the Washington Post, released a report that the Democrat National Committee (DNC) had been hacked by Russia. The firm that validated this was Crowdstrike and its President Shawn Henry confirmed the claims. In December 2016, Ms. Nakashima followed up her reporting with the outlandish claim that the CIA had determined that Russia hacked the DNC because Russia wanted Trump to win the election. Nakashima also […]
(Guest post from a TGP reader) Hydroxychoroquine may save your life. Get the best information you can. Despite what you previously heard about Hydroxychloroquine’s ineffectiveness for fighting the COVID-19 virus, new studies provide almost overwhelming proof of the opposite. Everyone owes it to themselves and their loved ones to do their homework so they understand the real truth about current treatment options based on the most timely and credible information. For yours and your loved ones sake, I urge you to not make a life and death decision based on politics or inaccurate news reporting. The (https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(20)30534-8/fulltext#) peer reviewed refereed study, […]
Sierra Nevada Corp. has secured a $700 million contract from the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) for the development and procurement of Radio Frequency Countermeasure (RFCM) systems. The U.S Department of Defense said Wednesday that the Sierra Nevada won a $700 million for a contract to develop new Radio Frequency Countermeasures system to integrated onto AC-130J Ghostrider and MC-130J Commando II aircraft operated by Air Force Special Operations Command to help protect aircrews from air- and land-based enemy radar and missile systems. This contract is funded with research, development, test and evaluation appropriation for fiscal 2020; and procurement appropriation for fiscal 2018, 2019 and […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): Reeling under the economic distress following the lockdown, Indian government provided relief to 800 million people by allocating free ration for three months. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that the number of people provided free ration is several times the population of many large countries like the USA and UK. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced a $12 billion Free Ration Scheme to 800 million people for the next five months. People will receive five kilograms of rice or five kilograms of wheat and one kilogram of lentils as well. Modi said on Tuesday: “More than […]
Binance wants its new U.K. trading platform to become a one-stop-shop for British and European institutions interested in investing in the digital asset class. Per a report by Reuters on Wednesday, Binance said its new U.K. crypto exchange would offer a local fiat onramp into crypto, in both pound sterling and euros. Like Binance’s other fiat-to-crypto platforms, such as Binance Uganda, Binance Singapore, and Binance US, the new Binance U.K. platform will launch with something like 65 digital assets listed. But the U.K. platform, which Reuters says will be regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the U.K.’s chief financial watchdog, […]
Crypto exchange OKEx is partnering with peer-to-peer marketplace Paxful to enable new fiat onramps for its customers. Paxful said in an emailed statement Monday that the move would benefit its own users by providing better liquidity and ease of access. According to the statement, Paxful would work as a fiat-to-cryptocurrency ramp for OkEx and its services will allow users to buy bitcoin with over 160 different national currencies, including the euro, pound sterling, Indian rupee and Thai baht. “With this partnership, we hope to make crypto more accessible as a real-world payment method,” said Ray Youssef, CEO and co-founder of Paxful, […]
Europe 09:24 GMT 08.06.2020(updated 09:34 GMT 08.06.2020) Get short URL US authorities have informed the Netherlands of being unable to provide additional information about a missile fired at the Malaysian Airlines Boeing, МН17, apart from a document sent in 2014, presiding judge Hendrik Steenhuis has stated at the resumed hearings in the MH17 case. “The court asked whether classified satellite images of the missile launch, presented to Dutch special services, could be attached to the case … The prosecution said that the request had been sent to the US back in 2014, and in response a memorandum was sent. The Dutch […]
Lockheed Martin has awarded BAE Systems a contract to provide key autonomy and artificial intelligence capabilities for DARPA’s Squad X program. Squad X prime contractor Lockheed Martin has awarded BAE Systems a contract to provide key autonomy and artificial intelligence capabilities that aim to advance the effectiveness of tactical robotic air and ground vehicles and create true partnerships between ground warfighters – Soldiers and Marines – and machines at the small-unit level. The goal of DARPA’s Squad X, which is composed of the complementary Squad X Experimentation and (the now completed) Squad X Core Technologies programs, is to design, develop, and […]